Rhizostomeae
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Order Rhizostomeae Cuvier 1799
Characteristics of the Order (from Kramp 1961)
Scyphomedusae with umbrella margin cleft into lappets; without marginal tentacles; without a central mouth opening, but with numerous mouths upon eight adradial, fleshy, branched, arm-like appendages arising from the centre of the subumbrella; with rhopalia between marginal clefts.
Based largely on Kramp (1961), Mianzan & Cornelius (1999)
Collections: M = morphology, D = DNA.
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